Connection between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry.

1. The medical profession represented by the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), and the pharmaceutical industry represented by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), aware of their responsibilities vis-à-vis patients and society, consider it essential to establish a framework that can serve as guidelines at a European level as well as at a national level for the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry.